flobots presentation finial
TRANSCRIPT
Flobots 2007album: fight with tools
Rival gangsters sit down to plan an after school program.
A religious fanatic posts footage of an interfaith service project.
A group of teenage boys watches a video of a father playing catch with his son.
An adult film star paints thumbnail portraits of elderly couples fully clothed and smiling.
A record executive records a demo of his apology.
A policeman makes reverse 911 calls instructing residents to take to the streets
A patriarch reports for duty.
She's wearing an orange jumpsuit and holding a picket sign.
She's ashamed of her birthplace, but retreat is not an option.
Women and Children
Front line
Log on Tune in
Stand and be counted,
wounded,
stationed
In the belly of the vulture watch your back
Theres no civilians
Women, Children
Consider this a distant early warning
The fires imminent
Pollution gathering dust particles
Funneling through smokestacks, airways, bandwidth
Butterfly wing crosswinds. send black hawks toward hurricane survivors. Roses sprout from empty lots and sidewalk cracks. Pacifist guerrillas move undetected through concrete jungles.
New forms are beginning to take shape.
Once occupied minds are activating.
People are waking up!
The insurgency is alive and well.
Rise of the flobots Portrait of The
new
Rattle and shake
the foundations of the world order
American insurgent
Assembly line
Incent!
Resist!
Refuse!
Inform!
Create!
Direct loved one's to the trenches
Suit up forge rubble into fortress's
Plastercloth
aluminumBroken porcelain
Rusted platinum
Burn blood stains from
Hammer the battle cry into Braille studded armor!
decompressed diamonds
We are building up a new world.
Do not sit idly by. Do not remain neutral. Do not rely on this broadcast alone.We are only as strong as our signal
There is a going on for your mind. If you are , you are
winning. Resistance is
Defeat is
war thinking
victory.
impossible.
Your weapons are already in hand. Reach within you and find the means
by which to gain your freedom. Fight with tools.
Your fate, and that of everyone you know Depends on it.
Fight with tools.
flobots